Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital

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Four months after the University of Iowa won a $49.5 million arbitration award over faulty and defective windows installed up and down its 14-story Children’s Hospital, coverage of that cost hangs in limbo — with insurance carriers for the company at fault asking a judge to find they do “not have any obligation” to pay.

Started over a decade ago, the Hawks to Go tailgate has helped raise money to the children’s hospital before every Hawkeye football game.

While maintaining its top ranking as Iowa’s best children’s hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital lost ground in new 2025-26 national rankings released Tuesday.

Staff at the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital participated in an emergency drill Friday that allowed them to practice their response protocols for a mass casualty event.

Although most studies measuring premature-baby outcomes start at 22 and 23 weeks — reporting U.S. survival rates between 10 and 20 percent at that gestation — University of Iowa Health Care is among the few hospital systems that take on babies at 21 weeks.

With crews in the midst of replacing nearly every window encasing its eight-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa on Tuesday announced it has won a $49.4 million arbitration award in its complaint over the defective windows.

The oft-cited Cancer in Iowa report that for several years has found the state to have the second-highest and fastest-growing rate of new cancers in the nation next year will start breaking out pediatric numbers.

That bigger Children’s Hospital window replacement budget — if approved by the Board of Regents next week — will bring the total cost to replace cracking and damaged windows encasing the eight-year-old hospital to $52.5 million.

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More than 15 years after U.S. News & World Report started ranking the nation’s children’s hospitals by the specialty services they offer, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital this year achieved a top-50 ranking in nine of 11 categories.

Five years after discovering damaged and cracking windows throughout its 7-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa is about one-third through its massive window-replacement project — with work expected to continue through the end of 2025 or into early 2026.

Under four months after launching a search for a new head of its nationally-ranked Stead Family Children’s Hospital — a position that has seen significant turnover for the past seven years — University of Iowa Health Care this week announced Jim Leste, vice president of operations for Children’s Minnesota, has accepted an offer.

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